$89.15

90mm body / 28mm blade

$213.44

Ibex Archtop Carving Planes

About This Item

High quality planes with a convex bottom, for thicknessing arched instrument tops and backs.

Precision mini planes get into small spaces. Machined from cast silicon bronze, with a chrome vanadium blade that holds an extremely fine edge.

A larger 90mm (3.54") convex model is for carving archtop guitars, cellos and basses. This palm plane features an adjustable mouth to refine the size of the shavings, a great feature when working with figured woods.

Ibex plane

Great for carving fiddle tops.

I bought carving planes to re gage the top of a fiddle top that was twice as thick as it should be. They make a difficult project much easier. As with any plane you will have to resharpen them as you use them. They come out of the box as sharp as needed.

Great finger planes

An excellent tool!

This tool really made the difference for me in shaping a semi-hollow top plate. It elegantly solved a real problem! My only nit: I wish there was a fine screw adjustment for positioning the blade instead of releasing the hold-pressure screw and then manually positioning the blade -- -- a tricky maneuver to get it exactly right.

Beautiful tool, a little hard on the hands

After an old family hand-me-down finally disintegrated, I finally gave in and purchased a couple of these curved planes. They are great at removing wood under control, but after excitedly arching two guitars with my new toy, my palm was getting pretty beat up. You'd think for the price they'd come fitted with a nice hard cheek block pad to fit in the palm instead of the raw end of the plane blade. One more project I guess. ;-)

Just what I needed for my shop

Wonderfull

Just bought the smaller one. As usual it was delivered in France in 3 days (2-4 weeks in theory). This plane is magical. Carving is so easy with it that it feels like cheating! I'm carving an acoustic guitar body in a single piece of wood. After carving the main shape with gouges and chisel, this plane is a real time saver to adjust the thickness. Only disappointment: it becomes very hot in no time, remember to wear gloves.

Finger plane

Nice tool, well made, and sets up easily, a bit small, but when sharpened removes wood quite fast. I tend to place my finger in the mouth of the plane which prevents the chips to release, I catch myself and it works fine. Gets into small places, I would recommend it!